In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] vocabulary

7 archaic vocabulary words

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agrimony

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[a common European plant, it] has been stated to have medical and magical properties since the time of Pliny the Elder. It is ruled astrologically by Cancer, according to Nicholas Culpeper. Common folklore held that it could cure musket wounds and ward off witchcraft
Traditional British folklore states that if a sprig of the plant was placed under a person's head, they would sleep until it was removed.

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Note: The Agrimonia eupatoria, or common agrimony, a perennial herb with a spike of yellow flowers, was once esteemed as a medical remedy, but is now seldom used.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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he put the four shoes in a graceful group on the turf and looked at them. And seeing them there among the grass and springing agrimony, it suddenly occurred to him that both pairs were exceedingly ugly to see. He was not at all startled by a voice behind him.

H.G. Wells. The Invisible Man.
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